June 2021

Their regular season is now in the rearview mirror.

The postseason awaits, and both Middleton track and field teams are excited about what lies ahead.

Middleton’s girls finished second at the six-team Paul Frank Invite hosted by Sun Prairie last Friday. Sun Prairie won the event with 146 points, while Middleton was a close second at 140.

Sun Prairie also won the boys meet with 156 points, while Verona (141) and Middleton (135.5) rounded out the top three.

“Without a conference meet to cap the end of season before the tournament schedule, the last two invites have been great for the kids,” said Middleton girls coach Jay Schweitzer said. “I think our finishes in both meets show the girls would be very competitive in a conference meet and I would like their chances. I'm very proud of the team’s development and performances.”

On the girls’ side, Kobi Davis won the shot put and Maddilyn Vander Sanden was third. Davis also won the discus.

Forgive Middleton freshman Charlie Jambor for experiencing a few jitters prior to his opening tee shot early Monday morning.  

As someone who had been alternating between varsity and junior varsity boys golf all season, Jambor was just hoping to contribute in the Cardinals’ biggest event of the season, the WIAA Division 1 Madison Memorial sectional at Blackhawk Country Club in Madison.  

It’s no secret that the perennial state-contending Cardinals routinely start a varsity five who are all capable of shooting in the 70s. Expectations are high. The competition just to make the varsity squad is fierce. 

And Jambor, who entered with an 85.25 average in four events for the young Cardinals, earned the fifth spot earlier in the week by winning a 36-hole qualifier by one shot. 

“I was a little nervous,” Jambor admitted. “My legs were noodles, basically. But as soon as I hit it and it was where I wanted it to be I was pretty excited.” 

MIDDLETON–Doris Mae Schroeder, age 83, of Middleton, passed away on May 26, 2021, at Ingleside Manor. She was born July 4, 1937, to Harold and Veronica (Rommelfanger) Schroeder in Sheboygan Falls. She earned degrees from UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison. From 1963 to 1994, she enjoyed working as a counselor and principal at Middleton High School.

Since retirement, she volunteered three years at the MOM food pantry. She worked 20 years at the Middleton Senior Center serving as RSVP driver escort, receptionist, newspaper assembly and member of the Commission on Aging. In 2004, she was recognized by the Middleton Good Neighbor Board for service to the community. In 2015, she was nominated by RSVP and received the National and Community Service Award for more than 4000 hours of volunteer work.

Her leisure activities included reading, exercising, bowling, playing cards, casino trips, watching the Badgers, Packers and Brewers and visiting friends and neighbors.

My seven-year-old daughter came home and told me she had a crush on someone at school. She added that a different classmate had a crush on her. The situation, she explained, was quite complicated.

Three days later, she walked up to me and said, “Dad, I have a question: What’s a crush?”

It was yet another reminder that life is experienced by those who do not understand it in real time. Much of the profundity and meaning in the moments we share only reveals itself later, with the lucidity of hindsight, often on a page or in a song. When things are actually happening, our most common sentiment is: “Huh?”

I like to think I sometimes enjoy little glimpses through the veil, into the true heart of what it means to be human. But these always come after the fact. I never realize how special a small moment is until it is gone, when I can look back on it and see just how immense it really was.